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Movie Quote of the Day – The Best Years of Our Lives, 1946 (dir. William Wyler)
Milly Stephenson: Didn’t think you’d be up for hours.
Al Stephenson: You know, I had a dream. I dreamt I was home. I’ve had that same dream hundreds of times before. This time I wanted to find out if it’s really true. Am I really home?
Milly Stephenson: Looks like it.
Movie Quote of the Day – Duel in the Sun, 1946 (dir. King Vidor)
Lewt McCanles: I’m riding back to that hitching post and then turning and starting to shoot.
Jesse McCanles: It’s more than you did for Sam Pierce! Why all the consideration?
Lewt McCanles: Just don’t want them fancy friends of yours to say you had a brother who shot you down in cold blood.
Movie Quote of the Day – Shock, 1946 (dir. Alfred L. Werker)
Nurse Elaine Jordan: You’re not sorry, are you?
Dr. Richard Cross: I wish I’d called the police. I lost my head! I didn’t mean to kill her! There was no premeditation! But now I’ve concealed her body, I’ve shipped the trunk to my lodge. . .you know as well as I do there’s only one answer for that! I shouldn’t have listened to you, Elaine!
Nurse Elaine Jordan: Think darling, what would have happened if you’d called the police? Manslaughter means twenty years. What would that have done to you? To us?
Dr. Richard Cross: I don’t know.
Nurse Elaine Jordan: Would you have wanted it that way? Now no one knows. We’re safe.
Dr. Richard Cross: You’re forgetting Janet Stewart, aren’t you? She knows. What if she talks?
Nurse Elaine Jordan: I haven’t forgotten her. She can’t tell what she’s seen as long as she’s in this condition, can she?
Dr. Richard Cross: The shock will wear off in a couple of weeks at the most.
Nurse Elaine Jordan: It will wear off if you let it, Dick.
Movie Quote of the Day – The Postman Always Rings Twice, 1946 (dir. Tay Garnett)
Cora Smith: It’s too bad Nick took the car.
Frank Chambers: Even if it was here we couldn’t take it, unless we’d want to spend the night in jail. Stealing a man’s wife, that’s nothing, but stealing a man’s car, that’s larceny.
Movie Quote of the Day – A Matter of Life and Death, 1946 (dir. Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger)
Conductor 71: Ah, these English! What is the good of kissing a girl if she does not feel it?
Movie Quote of the Day – The Stranger, 1946 (dir. Orson Welles)
Professor Charles Rankin: It’s not true, the things they say I did. It’s all their idea. I followed orders.
Mr. Wilson: You gave the orders.
Professor Charles Rankin: I only did my duty.
Movie Quote of the Day – Notorious, 1946 (dir. Alfred Hitchcock)
Alicia: This is a very strange love affair.
Devlin: Why?
Alicia: Maybe the fact that you don’t love me.
Movie Quote of the Day – The Killers, 1946 (dir. Robert Siodmak)
Big Jim Colfax: I’ll tell you something, Riordon, if there’s one thing in this world I hate, it’s a double-crossing dame.
Movie Quote of the Day – The Blue Dahlia, 1946 (dir. George Marshall)
Leo: Just don’t get too complicated, Eddie. When a man gets too complicated, he’s unhappy. And when he’s unhappy, his luck runs out.
Movie Quote of the Day – The Big Sleep, 1946 (dir. Howard Hawks)
Carmen Sternwood: Is he as cute as you are?
Philip Marlowe: Nobody is.
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